Winning BeagleBone Cape Plug-In Board Designs

The judges tirelessly reviewed each and every innovative BeagleBone Cape Plug-in
Board design entry and have chosen the three winning submissions.

Drum roll, please...

The winning entries are Replicape by Elias Bakken, Interacto by
Chris Clark and
the Geiger cape by Matt Ranostay.

Congratulations Elias, Chris and Matt! You each get $500 from Texas Instruments, $500
from Mouser and a tool from Total Phase. Plus, your amazing winning designs will be prototyped, manufactured and sold through Circuitco
Electronics.

In addition to the grand prize winners, our sponsors graciously agreed to give prizes to the social media favorite - the design
that received the highest number of Likes, +1's and Tweets. The social media
favorite is the FPGA LOGI-BONE by Michael Jones. Michael, you
get a tool from Total Phase, an AM335x StarterKit from Mouser and a Proto Cape
Kit from Adafruit.

Thank you to everyone that entered the first ever BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest. Your innovative and creative entries made this contest a success. You are inspiring and it is because of you the Beagle platform
exists.

Geiger cape is a working design that registers radiation counts from background sources and test sources. BOM cost for the Geiger Cape is well under $60 if you exclude any fancy geiger tubes or bring your own. Everyone in this project contributions:

There are few board erratas that exist. These mostly have to with protecting users from toasting the beaglebone, and some package sizing. But this is a completely working design with multiple geiger tubes.

The FPGA LOGI-BONE is a high performance low cost FPGA expansion board specifically designed to interface with the BeagleBone as an FPGA cape. The LOGI-BONE meets the requirements of being low cost while maintaining maximum performance. The LOGI-BONE facilitates maximum expansion using standardized interfaces including PMOD modules, SATA devices and Arduino Shields to allow direct plug and play functionality with a diverse amount of available hardware. The PCB was designed using a 4 layer PCB with utmost care taken to length tune and impedance control critical high speed signals. The LOGI-BONE has versatile programming options making it easy to design and program custom FPGA applications.